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“I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.”
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“Spirituality, a defended person has no room for love or compassion-he is too busy defending himself.”
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“You know, I agree with President Obama that in Iraq and Afghanistan, at some point in time, we have to take the training wheels off and we have to allow those countries to stand on their own two feet.”
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“Wisdom is a condition of consciousness rather than an attitude of mind. Wisdom is that state of being in which an individual finds himself when realization has tinctured and transmuted all attitudes and opinions. A wise man is one who has experienced wisdom, wisdom in this sense being a mystical experience.”
Source : Manly Palmer Hall (1935). “First Principles of Philosophy: The Science of Perfection”
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“Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other and therefore free to love the other. Where there is control, or perception of control, there is not love. Love only exists where there is freedom.”
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“There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife — a tyrannical midwife.”
Source : Stephen Spender's lecture at Brooklyn College, as quoted in "The New York Times", November 20, 1984.
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“[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.”
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“Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion. The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it.”
Source : "An Additional Number of Letters to the Republican". Letters by the Federal Farmer (pseudonym of Richard Henry Lee), Letter XVIII, teachingamericanhistory.org. January 25, 1988. 
